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Please use this page for discussions surrounding the creation of "Today's Featured Picture" for April Fool's day 2012


Areas of work needed to complete the front page are:

Ground rules for this activity along with a list or participants may be found on the Main talk page.


The Mission

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In order to get a funny/unusual Featured picture onto the front page, it must be both a great picture and be used in a Wikipedia article.

Action Items

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  1. What picture? We need to nominate some and vote on them.
  2. Whatever we choose has to be used in an actual Wikipedia article. Can we write an article that NEEDS a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe Greg Williams (who draws them for us) is sufficiently notable that we could write a short Bio article on him and illustrate it with a WikiWorld cartoon? Maybe WikiWorld in itself is notable (it's a bit of a self-ref...but maybe that's OK considering that we only need it to get the image accepted).
  3. If we choose to use a WikiWorld cartoon - maybe we want Greg to draw us one especially for the day?
  4. We have to usher it through the nomination process and make sure it actually does get onto the front page on April 1st.

Rules

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  1. The images must be a Featured Picture
  2. Pictures appear on the main page only once, so they cannot have been used on the Main Page before. Note that because Featured Pictures has a long backlog, there is a gap of over a year between a picture being promoted and it appearing on the Main Page, from which the April Fool's image can be selected.
  3. It is not too risqué (more so than any other picture that would be used on the front page). Any image which would be skipped over for TFP in the usual course of affairs cannot be used for April Fool's. So File:DefecatingSeagull.jpg and File:Indecency2.jpg (for example) are not eligible.

Proposed Images

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Removed File:Randolph Caldecott illustration2.jpg, Suggested by User:Delicious carbuncle. Reason: "This one has a big cock in it." Per Rule #2, POTDs cannot have been used before. No comment on the cock illustrating John Gilpin. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:42, 18 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Removed File:Big&Small edit 1.jpg, as it's already been POTD. howcheng {chat} 22:38, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
Apologies, forgot to check Big & Small for whether it had been featured already. The 1882 print of the pig-faced lady is stronger than the image in the gallery above, in my opinion. Because there is only the one frame it has greater impact. -- CountdownCrispy 23:20, 7 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  • In fact here's a quick attempt, which could be improved or expanded:
Modest Genius talk 00:51, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]